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  • Bundy v. Wetzel et al

    Publication Date: 2018-05-22
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
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    Case Number: 18-0601

    Plaintiff, a prison inmate subject to Act 84 deductions from his prison account to satisfy financial obligations based on criminal convictions, asserted a viable Due Process Clause claim that he was entitled to and deprived of some form of pre-deprivation notice before any funds were taken from his account. The appellate court reversed and remanded.

  • Konyk v. Pa. State Police

    Publication Date: 2018-05-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
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    Case Number: 18-0540

    Commonwealth not contractually-bound to federal plea agreement, with respect to state sex offender registration requirements, under third-party beneficiary or implied contract theories. Order of the commonwealth court affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Delgros

    Publication Date: 2018-05-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Baer
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    Case Number: 18-0535

    Criminal defendant entitled to raise ineffective assistance of counsel claims in post-trial motions where otherwise ineligible to assert such claims on PCRA review. Order of the superior court reversed, case remanded.

  • Commonwealth v. Romero

    Publication Date: 2018-05-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Wecht
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    Case Number: 18-0539

    Police could not effect arrest warrant in home of third-party absent magisterial determination of probable cause to search third-party home. Order of the superior court reversed, case remanded.

  • Kegerise v. Delgrande

    Publication Date: 2018-05-08
    Practice Area: Education Law | Labor Law
    Industry: Education
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Wecht
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    Case Number: 18-0546

    Commonwealth court erred in affirming trial courts conclusion that school superintendent was entitled to mandamus relief in her action seeking reinstatement because superintendent negotiated the right to resign without notice and her filing a federal action asserting constructive discharge implied that she considered her employment terminated before the school board voted to accept her resignation. Reversed.

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  • Reginelli v. Boggs

    Publication Date: 2018-04-10
    Practice Area: Evidence | Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Donohue
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    Case Number: 18-0430

    PRPA evidentiary privilege did not apply where entity was not a professional health care provider, and where performance review was not conducted by hospitals established peer review committee. Order of the superior court affirmed.

  • Bailets v. Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission et al

    Publication Date: 2018-04-10
    Practice Area: Damages | Whistleblower Laws
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Dougherty
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    Case Number: 18-0413

    Addressing an issue of first impression, the high court concluded that non-economic damages for items such as humiliation and loss of reputation are available to successful plaintiffs in suits brought under the Whistleblower Law; therefore, the trial court did not err in entering a plaintiffs verdict which included $1.6 million in non-economic damages. The court affirmed the judgment for plaintiff.

  • Office of Admin. v. State Employees Retirement Bd.

    Publication Date: 2018-04-03
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Labor Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Donohue
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    Case Number: 18-0394

    Commonwealth Court properly held that the union differentials received by police officers while on union leave were included in retirement benefit calculations and that Kirsch v. Public School Employees Retirement Bd., 985 A. 2d 671, did not apply due to the differing definitions of compensation in the applicable statutes. Affirmed.

  • Meyer, Darragh, Buckler, Bebenek & Eck, P.L.L.C. v. Law Firm of Malone Middleman, PC

    Publication Date: 2018-03-20
    Practice Area: Damages
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Dougherty
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    Case Number: 18-0279

    Superior court erred in reversing the trial courts award of quantum meruit damages to predecessor law firm because where successor counsel received and retained a benefit from predecessor counsels work, predecessor counsel was entitled to some payment.

  • Cagey v. Commonwealth, Dept. of Transportation

    Publication Date: 2018-03-06
    Practice Area: Government
    Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government | Transportation
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Donohue
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    Case Number: 18-0214

    PennDOT was not immune from suit in this case, as plaintiffs allegations that PennDOT created a dangerous condition by negligently designing and installing a dangerous guardrail fit squarely within the Sovereign Immunity Acts real estate exception. The court reversed the intermediate court and remanded.